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The CEE Recipe Book

I want to make a book of recipes donated by our members, readers and friends. Yep a real book! So I am asking all of you to email me your:

-recipe, name, email, source of recipe (a book, family, etc)

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Absinthe Evening

How do you start off a week in style and non-sobriety?

Well for me this past Monday I accomplished that with an Absinthe dinner!

It all started with our last All Sugar Event where we ended up at the Lab cocktail, a bar that specializes in Absinthe. My friend Johanne has had a bottle for a while [...]

Compulsive Shopping

Today I had brunch with a friend near one of Montreal”s biggest makrets: the Atwater Market. In the summer it is briming with produce sold by the local farmers outside. At this tme of the year that space was replaced with Chistmas trees salemans. But there is an indoor part with several great butchers, spice [...]

I See Green

No I am not going all environmental on you all (not that there is anything wrong with it in good Seinfeld dialect). It was just apparently the inspiration of the day.

At lunch time I headed over to La Maison du Macaron as the owners graciously donated their new hot-off-the-press recipe book as a prize for [...]

Flatware Fetish

I love going to kitchen stores or departments and look at the newest designs, equipments or inventions. Especially now with Christmas coming up I need to window shop for some inspiration to send my list to Santa Claus. I also like shinny things he he. So the tableware section always calls out my name in [...]

Macaron: the Book

I mentioned a couple of days I had two exciting evening in a row but I only gave you part of the info. Well I am revealing the first one. This is the info I gave you: Nov 12th: I was invited by a PR firm to attend a food book launch tonight that will [...]

Two Exciting Nights

I am such a tease! Did you know that? Well if you know me in real life you are probably nodding your head right now and laughing.

What does it have to do with this post. Well I am only going to tell you half a story…the rest will be revealed in 2 separate blogs. Tonight [...]

Le Fruit Défendu

I am by no means a beer connaisseur but I recently went to Bières et Compagnie with some friends and, as the name suggests, there is a lot of beer on the menu. Actually they claim to have over 100 beers. There is a seperate menu just for the beer.

I decided to splurge and try [...]

Macarons: History and recipe

As mentioned in my review of La Maison du Macaron in Montreal, I promised to do a follow up post discussing the history of these angelic treats, as well as give you a recipe for making them.

Really it seems the foodies world is in a Macron attack. Everyone is talking about them, everybody wants to [...]

Erico Choco-Musée in Quebec City

I was recently in Quebec City for a 24hr getaway. How lucky I was to enjoy balmy temperatures of 14 C with rain….NOT! And all I had were capris, sandals and a thin little sweater. Well at least this situation permitted me to discover a little epicurean delight I might have missed had it been [...]

Movie Review: Julie & Julia

Last night I was lucky enough to attend the premier of a great little film ALL FOODIES should see: Julie & Julia

Here is the plot on Wiki: Frustrated temp secretary Julie Powell (Amy Adams) embarks on a year-long culinary quest to cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She [...]

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